I guess everyone is going the poetry.com route these days where you release an anthology and get the contributers to essentually pay for their own poetry. Pay to see themselves published or whatever you want to call it. Recently I have been published in two different anthologies that I have never seen. Why because I guess I would be too stuborn to pay to see my own poetry published. Maybe I've been published enough that I really don't care at this point. That is something that I just don't do and I don't have a lot of money to spend on it.
Inevitably, rejection is a part of every writer’s life. Rejections on a small level, on a large level and on an insurmountable level of pain are just going to happen. Get over it........
my father would've even kicked the shit out of hemingway
i don't bullshit in my poems by that i mean three things: 1.) i only write poems that need to be written 2.) i don't put any unnecessary words in my poems 3.) i tell the truth
by the way, here's some truth: i never learned shit from studying w/ginsberg he wasn't that good of a teacher it was just inspiring for him to have liked my poems
more truth: even though he was an asshole, my father actually taught me how to write when he opened his mouth he screamed & when he screamed it was only what needed to be said he threw a lot of 'cunts' & 'cocksuckers' & 'motherfuckers' into the mix which only accentuated everything
for example, when the old toilet paper roll w/the loose screws thumped too many times against the wall when i pulled the tissue off it to wipe my ass & he banged on the bathroom door & screamed: DONT BE THROWIN' ALL THAT PAPER IN THE FUCKING BOWL YOU MOTHERFUCKER & GET YOUR ASS OUTSIDE & HELP ME STAPLE THIS PLASTIC OVER THE WINDOWS it was so forceful you got up off the seat dirty ass & all & got out of there & went out in the cold to insulate the house so when the heat was turned down so low that you could breath smoke in bed at least the drafts were blocked
i'm not in any way promoting being an asshole what i'm trying to say is there isn't enough time for us to bullshit people are dying out there, people are contemplating the edge of a bridge people are weeping @ the first sign of the sun people are weeping as night comes on hard we are all alone, groping for relief
what i am saying is we need more writers who write like an ogre is banging at their door twisting the doorknob, working @ the hinges screaming thru the barrier for them not to waste paper, not to clog the pipes w/extra words, w/bullshit
just shit man, shit & keep pulling the trigger of that staplegun
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